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Police on Saturday announced that they had closed two lanes on the Paphos-Limassol highway after a lorry overturned. “Traffic is being diverted towards Limassol from the exit before the tunnel,” ...

A 19-year-old man was killed early Saturday in a car crash near Larnaca. Christos Soteriou from Tseri was driving. on the Larnaca-Kofinou highway when he lost control of his vehicle ...

Curious to discover the buildings of Nicosia old town and their history? An architectural walk is being organised later this month taking visitors on a tour through old Nicosia’s ...

Following quickly on the success of India’s moon landing, the country’s space agency launched a rocket on Saturday to study the sun in its first solar mission. The ...

By Garritt C Van Dyk In 1889, the Syndicat du Commerce des Vins de Champagne produced a pamphlet promoting champagne at the Exposition Universelle in Paris, claiming that Dom Pérignon, ...

Alix Norman meets the woman who’s putting the ‘Made’ back in ‘Made in Cyprus’ Once upon a time, everything our ancestors owned, they made themselves – from local materials. Our ...

Both Akel and the Limassol mayor Nicos Nicolaides have criticised police for their handling of Friday’s racial violence in Limassol when shops were smashed, Molotov cocktails thrown, migrants chased ...

The Paphos Regional Tourism Board (Etap) this week reported that it expects increased flight activity during the winter season of 2023-2024. In an official statement, Etap executive director Nasos Hadjigeorgiou ...

Cyprus’ industrial producer prices saw a 3 per cent decline in July 2023 compared to the same month in 2022, according to data provided by the Cyprus Statistical Service. However, the year-to-date figures ...

Cyprus has witnessed a significant increase in the turnover of services during the second quarter of 2023 when compared to the same period in 2022. This growth has been noted across all ...

By Ioannis Tirkides The economic environment has been relatively fluid in recent weeks and months. Headline inflation has declined, while core inflation has remained uncomfortably high. In Europe, economic activity ...

Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google said on Wednesday it introduced generative artificial intelligence to its Search tool for users in India and Japan that will show text or visual results ...

Shameful images from the riots The anti-immigrant protest held in Limassol on Friday night revealed a rampant extremism that had no qualms about destroying everything in sight, and a shocking ...

A more modern approach to education, the installation of air conditioners in classrooms, Greek language courses for non-speakers and reducing school violence were among the main issues discussed by lawmakers ...

It was reassuring that a degree of caution was expressed by two ministers, with regard to the government’s prospective financial involvement, either through loan guarantees or direct investment, in ...

Cyprus’ national Fiscal Council this week called for immediate planning to gradually address the government’s debt to the Social Security Fund, amidst ongoing surplus reports in the general government ...

Cyprus experienced a decrease in acceptance deposit rates (for new placements) within its banking system during the month of July, despite consecutive increases in the European Central Bank’s (ECB) ...

The state could benefit from investing its social insurance fund as part of an effort to tackle the “chronic problem” surrounding its operations, chairman of Cyprus’ fiscal council Michalis Persianis ...

The Cypriot economy experienced a notable deceleration in its growth rate during the second quarter of 2023, with GDP growth slowing to 2.1 per cent compared to the same period in 2022. This ...

Canada on Friday unexpectedly said it had paused talks on a proposed trade treaty with India, just three months after the two nations said they aimed to seal an initial ...

Cyprus has submitted to the European Commission the revised Recovery and Resilience Plan, incorporating the REPower EU chapter with additional funds of €104 million, as well as revised timeline of landmarks, ...

By Andria Kades and Nikolaos Prakas Over two hundred far-right protesters gathered at the Molos area in Limassol for an anti-immigrant rally, which became an almost war-like scene, as things ...

President Nikos Christodoulides informed the national council on Friday about the efforts being made to restart Cyprus talks, the government actions following the incidents in Pyla, and the government’s ...

Police with sniffer dogs searched through the gutted remains of a Johannesburg apartment block on Friday, as authorities stepped up investigations into the cause of a fire that killed more ...